lái

goosefoot weed

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

來 sound component

  Sound component

lái

  

come

Evolution

萊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
萊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lái

goosefoot, weed; fallow field; name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album

Most common words with 萊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Chenopodium album

好莱坞

Hollywood

布莱尔

Blair (name)

克莱尔

Claire (name)

布莱恩

Brian (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.7751% of movies

621st most common character in movies

1196th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+840A

Shuowen

“萊,蔓華也。从艸,來聲。”


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